Tuesday, August 12, 2014

John Georges supports the troops

Tom Aswell speculates an Advocateeditorial thanking the State Police for beating up Shamarr Allen protecting New Orleans this summer is really more about John Georges looking to butter up State Police Superintendent Mike Edmonson.

Certainly the timing of the editorial had nothing to do with the
controversy swirling around the secretive passage of an obscure Senate
bill during the last day of the recent legislative session that
proved financially beneficial to Edmonson.

And certainly it had nothing to do with the fact that Advocate
publisher John Georges wants to keep Edmonson happy because Georges
holds a majority ownership in seven firms which provide video gambling
machines and other services to gambling establishments—and because
Edmonson oversees gaming through the State Gaming Control Board chaired
by Ronnie Jones who served as Edmonson’s confidential assistant prior to
his appointment to the Gaming Control Board. He is still listed as
Edmonson’s confidential assistant on the State Police web page even
though Jones says he resigned from that position last August.